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CSF Professor Kate Fletcher calls for more voices to be heard and amplified in discussions around fashion and sustainability. Here and on her blog she writes of the need for a deep look at the values currently promoted within the fashion industry and a greater understanding of the structural shift that is needed if we […]

Victoria Andre talks about sustainable supply chains and iconic loafers as she tells us a little about her project for Gucci as part of the Awards programme. Tell us a little bit about your project VA: My project aimed to propose a more sustainable supply chain for Gucci’s footwear range. I looked at how I […]

This week saw CSF’s Prof. Helen Storey return from her fourth trip to the Za’atari refugee camp in Jordan. Helen started working with those living at camp in 2016 after she was gifted a UNHCR decommissioned refugee tent. From the tent Helen created the ‘Dress For Our Time’, a project which uses the power of […]

We asked guest speaker Eleanor Snare to reflect after her LCF Manifestos talk… Once you’ve come up with an innovative idea for fashion as sustainability, how do you put it into practice? Talking to fashion consumers about innovative ideas appears simple: fashion is built on renewal and change, so new things are likely to be readily accepted. […]

With COP21 fast approaching (30 November – 11 December), CSF members are busy organising events and activities to mark the occasion. I have had the pleasure of supporting one of these projects, Dress For Our Time, a project by Helen Storey. Witnessing its development from initial discussion to sketch to the first chapter which will […]

The second annual Kering Talk took place last week at London College of Fashion, where we welcomed 11-time world surf champion, and proud MD of menswear brand Outerknown, Kelly Slater to the stage to discuss fashion and our environment. It’s not often one of the world’s greatest sportsmen pops into LCF for a chat, so not surprisingly […]

By Professor Kate Fletcher and Renée Cuoco Last week, the All Party Parliamentary Group for Ethics and Sustainability in Fashion, to which CSF is co-secretariat along with Hubbub, hosted a panel debate at Portcullis House, chaired by Baroness Young of Hornsey. The purpose of this debate was to explore one question – what (if any) […]

‘The spaces through which we go daily are provided for by locations; their nature is grounded in things of the type of buildings. If we pay heed to these relations between locations and spaces, between spaces and space, we get a due to help us in thinking of the relation of man and space.’ (Martin […]

Our relationship with our clothes has changed dramatically over the past couple of decades; somehow we have fallen into a monotonous cycle of shopping, stockpiling and then periodically binning our clothes rather than cherishing, valuing and loving them. Aside from the sad thought that many of the items we initially loved so much now aren’t […]

This week we are lucky enough to have a student perspective on the blog, here Dino Bonacic (MA Fashion Media Production) tells us about his approach to communicating sustainability through the fashion media. Having an honest story behind the communication of sustainability is extremely important. Here’s one of a media guy trying to understand what […]